Census Data

Sheffield: Religion (detailed)

Location Type: Metropolitan Districts, ONS Geographic Code: E08000019

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Key Facts

All Residents 556,521
Male 274,194
Female 282,327
Households 231,950
Population Density (people/km2) 1,512.5
Table Codets031
Issued2022-11-29
Unit of MeasurePerson
Number of Response Options58

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in England and Wales by religion. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Summary

The religion people connect or identify with (their religious affiliation), whether or not they practice or have belief in it.

This question was voluntary and the variable includes people who answered the question, including ‘No Religion’, alongside those who chose not to answer this question.

This variable classifies responses into the eight tick-box response options. Write-in responses are classified by their "parent" religious affiliation, including "No Religion", where applicable.

Religion (detailed): Total: All Usual Residents 556,522
Christian 214,136
Buddhist 2,215
Hindu 3,759
Jewish 649
Muslim 57,044
Sikh 927
No religion 241,556
No religion: Agnostic 424
No religion: Atheist 179
No religion: Free Thinker 3
No religion: Humanist 103
No religion: No religion 240,847
No religion: Realist 0
Other religion 2,636
Other religion: Alevi 177
Other religion: Animism 14
Other religion: Baha'i 51
Other religion: Believe in God 14
Other religion: Brahma Kumari 2
Other religion: Chinese Religion 1
Other religion: Church of All Religion 0
Other religion: Confucianist 1
Other religion: Deist 9
Other religion: Druid 24
Other religion: Druze 7
Other religion: Eckankar 1
Other religion: Heathen 50
Other religion: Jain 42
Other religion: Mixed Religion 54
Other religion: Mysticism 3
Other religion: Native American Church 0
Other religion: New Age 2
Other religion: Occult 3
Other religion: Other religions 525
Other religion: Own Belief System 28
Other religion: Pagan 672
Other religion: Pantheism 28
Other religion: Rastafarian 54
Other religion: Ravidassia 3
Other religion: Reconstructionist 6
Other religion: Satanism 53
Other religion: Scientology 12
Other religion: Shamanism 18
Other religion: Shintoism 8
Other religion: Spiritual 262
Other religion: Spiritualist 261
Other religion: Taoist 47
Other religion: Theism 11
Other religion: Thelemite 1
Other religion: Traditional African Religion 6
Other religion: Unification Church 6
Other religion: Universalist 11
Other religion: Valmiki 0
Other religion: Vodun 3
Other religion: Wicca 117
Other religion: Witchcraft 15
Other religion: Yazidi 11
Other religion: Zoroastrian 23
Religion not stated 33,600

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